re: #88 Kenneth

“Mutual assured destruction was the main deterrent preventing the use of nuclear weapons by the Soviets … For Ahmadinejad and his group, with their apocalyptic mind-set, mutual assured destruction is not a deterrent but an inducement.” – Bernard Lewis

I just had an awful thought. (I may get a lot of down dings for this.) What if it is like the two women fighting over the baby, and Solomon says the only solution is to split the baby in half?

It is like Solomon and the two women fighting over the baby because so many children on both sides will die. The way the story goes, the woman who really loved the child was willing to walk away, to preserve the baby’s life. She would rather her baby live and was willing to let the other woman “win”. BUT, in this current event, neither side is willing to “walk away” and both sides seem to be willing to let their children die if the only other choice is to walk away.